Blade Warrior (Codemasters)

zx1

I remember back in the day playing this game and thinking it was quite good, the graphics were nice and colourful but the game was a little hard but was still good to play.
Fast forward to now, i played it again recently for the first time in many years and now i find the game tedious, frustrating, and annoying.
Does anyone else like it?

Grunaki

That's irrelevant - just embrace the Zeitgeist.. Back then. it fell within acceptable parameters.. These days, the benchmark for 'acceptable' has moved.

zx1

So my thread was irrelevant? :(
It's funny how our perception of games change over the years. There are still many Spectrum games i like to play - this isn't one of them.

blackcornflake

Not irrelevant at all, IMO. Appreciation - i.e. taste in things, whether video games or wine - is entirely subjective and individual. And it does change over time, a phenomenon I find fascinating.

Never played Blade Warrior, myself :> Codemasters games have never had that much of a pull for me.

RobeeeJay

zx1 wrote: »

I remember back in the day playing this game and thinking it was quite good, the graphics were nice and colourful but the game was a little hard but was still good to play.
Fast forward to now, i played it again recently for the first time in many years and now i find the game tedious, frustrating, and annoying.

I still like the games I enjoyed back then, some of them I'm better at now, but some frustratingly (like Space Invaders on the Atari 2600) that I used to be able to play indefinitely I really suck at! Maybe reactions aren't what they used to be. :(

Your Spec-chum

Had this BITD. But I played it just to annoy my mum as the speech and graveyard scene when losing a life used to give her the creeps >:)

I think for me this was one of those games I wasn't sure what you were supposed to do, so I just spent time exploring different screens.

zx1

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

Had this BITD. But I played it just to annoy my mum as the speech and graveyard scene when losing a life used to give her the creeps >:)

I think for me this was one of those games I wasn't sure what you were supposed to do, so I just spent time exploring different screens.

It's funny you say that because my mum was the same! She hated the speech and said the exact same thing :D

Antiriad2097

zx1 wrote: »

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

Had this BITD. But I played it just to annoy my mum as the speech and graveyard scene when losing a life used to give her the creeps >:)

It's funny you say that because my mum was the same! She hated the speech and said the exact same thing :D

Your mums didn't 'work away from home' a lot did they? You hear these stories about people with two families...

Prophet

I wouldn't say it's a particularly good game because the jumping is too stiff and awkward. That said, as a kid I thought it had a brilliant atmosphere; a real sense of foreboding and isolation. But back then I couldn't get far enough to realise just how small the map was!

Looking at it again, I've just realised those are hands with pitchforks, not skeletons with bobbing heads. Well that spoils it a bit.

dm_boozefreek

I don't think I ever owned a real copy of this game, and if I didn't I'm glad I didn't!

It's sh*t! :p

def chris

don't think I ever played this.

YS review: "Tediously, terribly, totally, tackily boring", lol
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